The matchup between new - generation AMD and Nvidia artwork cards is inflame up in early-2025 , with Nvidia ’s RTX 50 storming out the gate , andAMD ’s RDNA4 GPUswaiting excitedly in the wings . With stock levels all over the place , prices skewing wildly too , questions abound about how these unexampled cards will fair against one another in a straight head to head teacher .

Until we have hands - on clip with these cards ourselves ( and the trade stoppage lift ) we ca n’t tell you for sure , but we can make some educated estimations of how the battle might turn out .

Here ’s howthe RTX 5080and RX 9070 XT compare .

Pricing and availability

The RTX 5080 formally launched on January 30 , with a suggested price tatter of $ 1,000 . However , due to incredible caudex shortages and the Trump administration ’s tariff , prices quickly billow out of control . At the meter of written material , these cards are completely unavailable at any major retailers , and they ’re being sold at tight to repeat their original damage on Ebay and like second - hand site .

The RX 9070 XT is slated to launch in “ Early March , ” with AMD yet to send to a fast day of the month . rumor evoke March 6 is probable , but they ’ve yet to be affirm . Pricing rumour abound , too , with some setting the 9070 XT at around $ 750 , which would put it at around the same price as the Nvidia 5070 Ti , but several hundred dollars behind even the suggested price ofthe RTX 5080 .

Specifications

Until AMD gives us some full specification for its new RDNA4 cards afterward this month , there is n’t much we can say for sure about the RX 9070 XT . We know it ’ll be free-base on AMD ’s new RDNA4 architecture , but details on that are very thin on the ground .

We know it ’ll have a second - multiplication of AMD ’s AI accelerators , though they ’re work up into the graphics gist , rather than being their own distinct check , like in Nvidia ’s RTX GPUs . We know they ’ll be build on the TSMC 4NP node , which should make it about equivalent to the process used in Nvidia ’s RTX 50 - serial . This card will also have a raw , 3rd generation of RT gas pedal , so light beam tracing performance should get a skillful bump too .

As for the head to head with the 5080 , based on news leak and rumored hardware spectacles so far , the Nvidia card should be the more capable GPU . It ’ll have degraded remembering , greater overall bandwidth , and likely lots more cores to work with . That should give it an edge . If pricing rumour are to be believed , too , AMD seems well cognizant of this and is undercutting it consequently .

Performance

We have it off how well the RTX 5080 do . It ’s right , but not incisively stellar , outfox the last - generation 4080 Super , but settle behing the RTX 4090 , and mode , agency behhind the new flagship , the RTX 5090 .

The interrogation is , how will it equate to the RX 9070 XT ? AMD has in the past suggested we could see 7900 XT - like performance from the 9070 XT , which would put the 9070 XT around the 4070 Ti Deutschmark — a significant rock ’s cam stroke behind the 5080 .

We ’ll need to wait for unbendable benchmarks ( and our own hand - on examination meter ) with these novel carte du jour to sustain , but the 9070 XT is potential to be a more low , but more - affordable graphics board than the RTX 5080 . specially as stock remains problematic .

We’ll need to see more to be sure

AMD has been uncharacteristically demure about its 9070 XT . The Leslie Townes Hope is that this is to underpromise and overdeliver , usher off something in the next couple of weeks that blows us away and fall in Nvidia serious headache for its mid - range . In reality , though , we ’re in all probability looking at a batting order that does n’t really break boundaries , but tender a modest upgrade for those on older RX 5000 or 6000 graphics cards , with a substantial boost to ray tracing performance .

FSR4 with build generation could help , too , though . Multi build generation was the big standout feature of speech of the RTX 50 - serial publication , so if AMD can tender an equivalent and in reality have its cards in stock , it could still be on to a victor . secure to look and see for now , though .